JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE
Volume 14 No. 3 | November 2011 | |
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Cover | ||
About the JAHH and the cover | Inside Cover | |
Contents | 167 | |
Papers | ||
The Surprising History of Claims for Life on the Sun | Michael J. Crowe | 169 |
Sirius in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature: From the Orphic Argonautics to the Astronomical Tables of Georgios Chrysococca | Efstratios Theodossiou, Vassilios N. Manimanis, Milan S. Dimitrijevic & Peter Z. Mantarakis | 180 |
Announcement: Radio Astronomy and the JAHH | 190 | |
The Coudé Equatorials | James Lequeux | 191 |
Early Astronomical Sequential Photography, 1873-1923 | Vitor Bonifacio | 203 |
The Astronomical Significance of ‘Nilurallu’, the Megalithic Stone Alignment at Murardoddi in Andhra Pradesh, India | N. Kameswara Rao, Priya Thakur & Yogesh Mallinthpur | 211 |
The Role of Astronomical Alignments in the Rituals of the Peak Sanctuary at Kokino, Macedonia | Olgica Kuzmanovska-Barandovska & Jovica Stankovski | 221 |
Who Invented the Word Asteroid: William Herschel or Stephen Weston? | Clifford J. Cunningham & Wayne Orchiston | 230 |
IAU Reports | ||
IAU Historical Instruments Working Group: Triennial Report (2009-2011) | Sara J. Schechner | 235 |
IAU Transits of Venus Working Group: Triennial Report (2009-2011) | Hilmar W. Duerbeck | 237 |
Book Reviews | ||
Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries, by Govert Schilling | Naomi Pasachoff | 238 |
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli e I’Osservatorio di Arcetri, by Simone Bianchi, Daniele Galli & Antonella Gasperini | lleana Chinnici | 238 |
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, by Dava Sobel | Naomi Pasachoff | 238 |
Transit of Venus 1631 to the Present, by Nick Lomb | Wayne Orchiston | 240 |
Index to Volume 14 | 241 | |
Corrigendum | ||
Correction to “Comets in Aboriginal Australian Astronomy” | Duane W. Hamacher | 242 |
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Contents | Back Cover |